Photon Collider Physics with Real Photon Beams.

Gronberg, J. ; Asztalos, S.

Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee

关键词: Photon-photon interactions;    Colliders;    Electron beams;    Stanford linear collider;    Energy range;   

RP-ID  :  DE2006875945

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

美国|英语

来源: National Technical Reports Library

【 摘 要 】

Photon-photon interactions have been an important probe into fundamental particle physics. Until recently, the only way to produce photon-photon collisions was parasitically in the collision of charged particles. Recent advances in short-pulse laser technology have made it possible to consider producing high intensity, tightly focused beams of real photons through Compton scattering. A linear e(sup +)e(sup -) collider could thus be transformed into a photon-photon collider with the addition of high power lasers. In this paper we show that it is possible to make a competitive photon-photon collider experiment using the currently mothballed Stanford Linear Collider. This would produce photon-photon collisions in the GeV energy range which would allow the discovery and study of exotic heavy mesons with spin states of zero and two.